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OldYouTube
Browse YouTube as it looked from 2005 to 2016
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Browse YouTube as it looked from 2005 to 2016
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OldYouTube recreates YouTube as it looked each year from 2005 to 2016: the real archived layouts, real videos from that year, the old players and 5-star ratings. Pick a year on a period laptop and click around. Free, made by one person for fun.
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Hi Product Hunt! I made OldYouTube because I missed how YouTube felt back then: the star ratings, "Broadcast Yourself", the tiny homepages full of weird videos.
Pick a year from 2005 to 2016 and you get that year's YouTube on a laptop from the same period. You can browse the homepage, search and watch videos.
What's real and what's recreated:
Real: the page layouts are rebuilt from Wayback Machine snapshots of YouTube from that year. The videos, titles, view counts and comments come from the archived pages, and the videos play from YouTube itself (so only the ones still online).
Recreated: the old player controls are drawn on top of YouTube's embed player. Ratings, favorites and the "sign in" only live in your browser. A few features from back then just show a pop-up.
It's free and made by one person for fun. It isn't affiliated with YouTube.
I'd love your feedback: which year feels most right, which feels off, and what you remember from old YouTube that's missing. Bugs too, especially on phones.